Marcel Märtens
Associate Partner
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcel Märtens is an Associate Partner and seasoned software engineer with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native systems, databases, and performance-sensitive back ends. He combines hands-on expertise in SAP HANA administration, C++, Python and Go with DevOps and Kubernetes practices, having progressed from dual studies to senior roles at SAP and Intrexx. Marcel is comfortable in Agile teams using TDD and pair-programming, and he drives both project responsibility and delivery-focused engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved parallel ECS storage in the specs library and optimized performance and CI for the voxel RPG Veloren, showing a taste for low-level optimization and build/toolchain improvements. Based in Walldorf, Germany, he blends enterprise-grade database and microservice experience with pragmatic engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor, Wirtschaftsinformatik at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg
Github Skills (14)
parallel-processing10
rust10
amazon-ecs10
performance-optimization10
cicd10
aws-ecs10
terrain-generation9
data-structure9
build-system9
data-structures9
data-serialization8
algorithms8
serialization8
software-design7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
veloren/veloren
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
An open world, open source voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Cube World. This repository is a mirror. Please submit all PRs and issues on our GitLab page.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2067 commits, 23 PRs, 76 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Marcel's commits focused on improving the Veloren project's performance by optimizing various processes and reducing runtime. They implemented performance tests for erosion and also improved the terrain-sending system. In addition, the user worked on streamlining CI by moving translation checks to a separate step and adjusting toolchains to optimize the build processes.
gamerpgsubmitvoxelsdwarf-fortress
amethyst/specs
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Specs - Parallel ECS
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 12 reviews, 16 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily contributed to the `specs` library, a parallel ECS (Entity Component System) framework. Their work focused on enhancing the core storage mechanisms, including implementing nightly feature flags, refactoring component access, and updating dependencies, including those related to serialization. The user's commits also involved adapting the code to newer versions of dependencies and fixing code formatting issues.
ecsparallelrustparallel-ecsspecs
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